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Hi, this is Mike Mozart, back again with the coolest tropes of yesterday and today!

Jeepers Media is the brainchild of Mike Mozart, a 20-year toy product designer and book illustrator. Simply put, there are a myriad of horrible candies and toys out there...and he owns one or more of every single one of them. He plans to make a toy museum someday with the best and worst toys the world has to offer. Has to be seen to be believed. He also has another channel which typically has reviews of good toys.

In 2011, Mike made several videos dealing with SOPA, ACTA, PIPA, as well as a controversial Megaupload-centered video. He returned to his toy reviews in 2012 but vanished from YouTube in 2013. He finally returned in 2015, promising to produce far more toy reviews. As of March 2016, he has yet to upload any of said reviews, but he is active on Twitter.

Mike is also an avid graffiti artist, whose works look like a piece of an infringed-upon cartoon character, but are really part of a totally different piece of original artwork.

Berserk Button: Mike really hates Viacom, and uploaded a series of videos criticizing their hypocrisy in getting YouTube to ban contributors who use copyrighted material while they themselves uploaded clips from Viacom-owned shows designed to look like illegally-uploaded materials as a sort of viral marketing.

In one video, Mike points out that Viacom has apparently been stealing YouTube videos, reposting them on a Viacom-owned site (www.spike.com), changing the titles to deny the original posters credit, and putting ads before the videos in order to make money. He was not amused.

He did another video report about CNET (which has been owned by Viacom since 2008) being guilty of promoting and popularizing filesharing software such as Limewire, Grokster, and Kazaa which feature infringed-upon material owned by Viacom. The two were mainly responsible for Limewire's eventual demise in late 2010.

Camera Screw: A rare non-videogame example. Many episodes of Fail Toys are plastered with annotations of some sort (usually containing obligatory Please Subscribe to Our Channel messages or side notes). Most of these annotations are kept inside a back border, but when there isn't a border (in the case of the newer episodes), it can obstruct the sides of the video.

"The picture... (shows the box/packaging/promotional photo of the product) ...the reality!" (shows the real thing, often looking nowhere near as good)

"Is this win or fail?"

"Hi! This is Mike Mozart (from JeepersMedia [on YouTube]) bringing you the coolest products from yesterday and today!"

"...[Please] Put that in the comments section."

"If you're Amish, you might not want to watch this video, because I'm about to show off these toys exactly as they were designed...[Shows off a potentially inappropriate toy]...for children?!"

Censored for Comedy: The 100th Video Milestone Celebration concerns about the show's potential offensiveness by bleeping words...in a manner that makes the dialogue sound naughtier than before. (eg, "What happened after Ken kissed Barbie? Her cheeks got all Rosie!)

Corpsing: In his positive review of the Play-Doh Hairdo Dolly (on his other channel), he tries to demonstrate using brown 'Doh for her hair. He breaks up because he notices that the brown lump of clay he'll be using "looks just like a piece of shit!" He urges the cameraman to keep rolling after the second failed attempt to keep a straight face.

Baby Laugh-A-Lot, a doll whose actual laugh sounds like an evil old smoker, rather than a friendly giggle, and a clown doll which was very similar.

Baby Tatters, A homeless rag doll with some very depressing and unnerving phrases.

Little Baby Lost, an "abandoned baby" doll with a face-changing gimmick operated by a lever, which has the unintentional effect of creating a multi-faced doll mid-transition.

Darker and Edgier: Not so much darker (although more recent videos have seen a decrease in suitable lighting), but the few toy review videos that Mike has done since his Channel Decay / Halfway Plot Switch seems he almost goes out of his way to cram as many dirty jokes into the review as possible, and his reviews tended to be (for the most part) clean enough.

Drop-In Character: In the few more recent toy reviews, Mike has been accompanied by extra people who throw in little random acts and sketches in the review.

Erotic Eating: The "Kiss Pops" lips lollipops. The tongue is the candy. You suck on the tongue. Also comes in animal. And Jar Jar Binks.

Even the Rats Won't Touch It: In his review of the Hulkster Cheeseburger, he sets the burger down for Cocoa Puff, along with an ordinary McDonalds cheeseburger. Cocoa Puff won't touch the Hulkster burger, and Mike (accurately) points out that Labs will usually eat anything.

Halfway Plot Switch: As noted above, by December 2011, Mike had pretty much stopped doing toy reviews, and instead went very political, ranting against various different corporations and organizations, and even participating in an Occupy Wall Street protest. Since then, any toy reviews he does have been few and far between.

Later Installment Weirdness: Specifically, Mike Mozart's videos. Starting around 2011, Mike had pretty much stopped doing toy reviews, and instead made increasingly more rant videos, usually against bigger media corporations like Viacom, but he also got very political as well. This continued for about a year, then he began doing new toy review videos, which contained a lot more adult jokes and wordplay than older reviews, in addition to other Jeepers Media folk joining in on the reviews as well. It's also clear that by this point, Mike's mindset went from Doing It for the Art to Money, Dear Boy.

Motor Mouth: You'd think Mike gets out at least seven sentences per breath, although he has slowed down since.

Network Decay: Somewhat. Towards the end of December 2011 and up to the first half of 2012, Michael Mozart has started making videos that rant about SOPA, PIPA, ACTA (which were actually important issues and became highly controversial in late 2011/early 2012), and perhaps most famously, one centered around whether or not Megaupload's users will be arrested. He has also gone on to do beer reviews and has said that he is planning tons of more toy reviews.

Shoddy Knockoff Product: The subject of several videos, with one of them featuring Cars knockoffs and another featuring Winnie-the-Pooh knockoffs. Mike himself explicitly states in video, text, and annotations that he does not sell or give away these due to safety concerns.

What Happened to the Mouse?: Mike suffers from a HORRIBLE case of this, as he's made AT LEAST 20 promises to review things or make videos that he's never followed through on.

His worst case would be the "Funny Videos: , KNOCKOFF Fail Toys" video. He demonstrates a plethora of knock off products with the promise that he would review them all eventually. In the end, only three of the products were given their own reviews- with only one of them (the knock-off iPods) being a knockoff.

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